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Oct 2025
KFF Health News' 'What the Health?': Democrats make this shutdown about the ACA
As long predicted, much of the federal government shut down on Oct. 1, after Congress failed to agree on spending bills that keep most programs running.
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Oct 2025
New molecular sensor for taste-based detection of influenza
Flu season is fast approaching in the northern hemisphere. And a taste-based influenza test could someday have you swapping nasal swabs for chewing gum.
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Oct 2025
New insights into how antimicrobial peptides kill bacterial cells
New research into antimicrobial peptides, small chains of amino acids able to damage bacterial cells, shows why some peptides are more effective at doing that and also why some cells are more vulnerable.
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Oct 2025
Intensive sports in adolescents trigger complex heart adaptations
Adolescent athletes' cardiovascular system may adapt to increased cardiorespiratory fitness by increasing blood pressure, arterial stiffness and heart growth, a new study shows.
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Oct 2025
Fitter hearts beat less: How exercise may add years to life
Forget the myth that exercise uses up your heartbeats. New Australian research shows fitter people use far fewer total heartbeats per day - potentially adding years to their lives.
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Oct 2025
Study identifies PTX-3 as potential marker for long COVID and tissue damage
A research team working at MedUni Vienna has demonstrated that a specific component of the immune system (PTX-3) remains at significantly higher levels in the blood of patients who have suffered from severe COVID-19, even months after the acute infection has subsided.
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Oct 2025
‘Future-guided’ AI boosts accuracy in seizure prediction
In the world around us, many things exist in the context of time: a bird's path through the sky is understood as different positions over a period of time, and conversations as a series of words occurring one after another.
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Oct 2025
Wearable device can help lower relapse risk in early addiction recovery
A new study by investigators from Mass General Brigham shows that a non-drug, wearable device can help people with substance use disorders (SUD) manage stress, reduce cravings, and lower their risk of relapse in real time.
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Oct 2025
Novel insight into why males and females age differently
Around the world, women on average live longer than men. This striking pattern holds true across nearly all countries and historical time periods.
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Oct 2025
Long-term exposure to industrial solvent associated with elevated Parkinson's disease risk
Long-term exposure to the industrial solvent trichloroethylene (TCE) outdoors may be linked to an increased risk of Parkinson's disease, according to a large nationwide study published in the October 1, 2025, issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.
